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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
entrain .
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Examples
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Musicians and dancers, playing and listening to the same music together, become 'entrained' to each other.
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This dry air has kind of entrained itself for a while.
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"entrained," as he would say in one of his military dispatches.
Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917
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This rule not only establishes the father's status in the male-dominant community, but it also works to achieve another salient objective: marriageable girls are entrained to view any uncircumcised man as undesirable, thereby ensuring the ethnic stability of the tribe.
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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This rule not only establishes the father's status in the male-dominant community, but it also works to achieve another salient objective: marriageable girls are entrained to view any uncircumcised man as undesirable, thereby ensuring the ethnic stability of the tribe.
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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In one instance an entire black regiment had entrained for Charleston to be mustered out of service when someone uncoupled the cars and isolated them on a high trestle bridge.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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In one instance an entire black regiment had entrained for Charleston to be mustered out of service when someone uncoupled the cars and isolated them on a high trestle bridge.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), these studies indicated that approximately 1.2 billion fish eggs and larvae were entrained (sucked in through the intake screens and into the system), and approximately 178,000 fish were impinged on (or trapped against) the screens by the pressure of the intake flow.
Kyle Rabin: A View to a (Fish) Kill: A Firsthand Perspective on Fish-Killing Cooling Systems Kyle Rabin 2011
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Removing functional sexual tissue is harmful: it is harmful to the infant, to the pleasure potential and sexual bonding of the mature man, and to the mother who is entrained to surrender her sacred bond with her infant in order for his masculinity to be redefined in terms of his community.
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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Removing functional sexual tissue is harmful: it is harmful to the infant, to the pleasure potential and sexual bonding of the mature man, and to the mother who is entrained to surrender her sacred bond with her infant in order for his masculinity to be redefined in terms of his community.
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
mollusque commented on the word entrained
Like a larval squid swept along by the current.
September 12, 2008